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Chicago examiner vol vii no 214 a m friday august 27 1909 14 pages price one cent delivered dy carrier **. 30 cents per montli mitten in promise to reconsider pay with maximum at end of five years mahon declares new offer of city railway president will not satisfy men both sides talk peace walter fisher again submits idea for working proposi tion in car dispute another proposition presented by presi dent thomas e mitten of the Chicago city railway to the union carmen was rejected yesterday it was a graded scale which provided that the maximum of 30 cents an hour be reached in seven years instead of nine as had been previously offered the objection f the union officials was agaiust the length f the term after the rejection president mitten said that he would make a further investigation to see if the time of service could be still further redueed i will sc whether we can make it five years said mr mitten but i cannot see how we can pay any of the employes 3ii cents uu hour from the beginning only four union officials were present as the committee of thc day before had been found too cumbersome those present were presidenl w i mahon m c itn.-k ley william quintan and 11 a carter representing rin virions union involved in thc wage controversy president john i couch acted for the Chicago railways company president thomas e mitten for the Chicago city railway and walter l fisher for the city mahon asks answer well said president mahon when the conference opened i think it is about time for the traction presidents to give us au answer to our proposition why not take up some of the propo sition presented by the companies said president mitten vou have made only one offer for a contract and still iusist that we shall keep coming across to you why no consider the plan presented b.v mr said attorney fi her yuia question was discussed for awhile without any one being willing to make a suggestion for changing it finally president mitten said that he had been trying to see if he could reduce his sine year graded scale proposition su that the maximum wa^ea would be readied in seven years 1 cannot sec how it can be done said president mitten in a seven-year scale ! have found il practically impossible to reach the maximum of 3d cents an hour im mediately for those who have worked that time my lirst oiler of a nine-year graded scale will give 7-'l employes out of 2 73 30 cents au hour immediately to decrease the time to seven years service would in crease the number of employes advanced to j cents to 090 seven years too long says mahon we'd we cannot accept even a seven years graded scale said president mahon the time is too long wi still maintain thai you should grant us a new wage scale thai provides that ihe maximum wage of 30 cents siiail be reached iu three years the arguments went along these lines for two hour . during that time the proposition present ed wednesday by mr fisher that a scale should be considered which had for its pur pose the making eventually of a minimum scale for new men of ".*Â» lf tits was consid ered it also pruvided hu the muximum for old men should be advanced to 30 cents 1 ihiuic if mr fisher would work i his proposition in figures so as to show what it really is that we can then con sider it said i'lcsidcut mahon mr fisher said that he had been working ali bis idle time on the scale ho proposed md would probably be able to give a satisfac tory answer to-morrow president itoach said very little in the conference but frequently presented argu ments for his original proposition for a graded scale similar to the nine-year scale of president mitten finally the talk went back to president mitten's seven-year scale do you see any way clear to reduce the term of service still further asked mr fisher could you make it five years to reach tlie maximum of 30 cents 1 think not replied president mitten but 1 will look up the matter to-night and give you an answer to-morrow i am sure iiowever that to do that would make it impossible to advance any one immediately to 30 cents an hour fisher sure of peace after the conference adjourned mr fisher sai he was confident that some thing would develop from to-day's confer ence it takes time to wor out the problems presented said he * the rank and file of the carmen bow ever are anxious for something definite to be accompli h.-d this feeling became so pronounced yesterday that president w d mahou issued a statement in which he sa id : i know what it is to wait for results but we must not forget that the men with whom we an dealing have great properties to look after they have given us four hours of their time daily and i ain satisfied with that 1 would advise all the carmen to keep cool and perform their dates as usual it is not like triyng to settle a strike the hum are all at work and should be patient president matthew slush of the Chicago & southern traction company whose em ployes threaten to strike telegraphed resident mahon last night that he would be in Chicago to-day to take up the griev hnces the employes object to an offer made b.v presidenl slush to pay 3 cent an hour increase with the understanding that the sub-station men should not be consid ered tills was rejected and a telegram was sent wednesday to president slush who is in detroit asking him to come to Chicago yesterday the appointment for to-day was the result in the meantime t__t cuidloyes will lake no action lynch general threat in the panama tragedy romance in hospital involving well known woman and doctor given as cause of killing editor panama aug 26 many americans in the canal zone threatened to-day to lynch genera herbert 0 jeffries if he is not adequately punished for killing william nichols chandler editor of thc panama press yesterday general jeffries is a prisoner not in a cell but in a comfortable room on the first floor of the police station while repeat ing tbat he ls sorry for chandler's death be ays he has enough powerful backing in the i'nlted state's to get him out of the scrape as h calls it jeffrlts insists that the tory at which chandler hinted in the newspaper has been common property for some time and that everybody knows lt deputy consul gen eral guyant's explanation is that his wife went to the tnbogu sanitarium to recuper ate from ninrtarla dr reeves a former suitor of mrs guynnt und a friend of her husband paid mrs guyant polite attention and was assiduous in medical attention on her one day irs guyant and dr reeves dined together the doctor gave her two cocktails to which she was entirely ac customed she became ill some time aft.r she sought her room dr reeves hap pening to pass it heard mrs guyant moan ing he knocked on the door entered the room iu response to mrs guyant's faint come in and turned ou the light dr reeves was in the room discussing mrs guyant's illness with her when dr mc pherson bearing a man's voice in a room he knew was occupied by a woman patient opened the door dr mcpherson's charges against dr i eves followed the sanitarium authori ties refuse to disclose tliese accusations but judging from dr beeves promptness in availing himself of permissoin to resign as resident physician in the sanitarium mr chandler's friends think the charges were vary strong gary dined at sheffield i s steel chief believes in reci procity between nations sheffield england aug fi the chamber of commerce gave a dinner in honor of judge elbert h iary chairman of the board of directors of the united states steel corporation replying to a toast to his health judge gary spoke on the interdependence of trade conditions iu england and the united states he said that recent months had shown a decided advance in trade iu the i'uited states espe cially in iron and steel and so he thinks england has gocd reason to be hopeful he has uo objection to free trade he declared if all ooumrles adopr it but it > tv â€¢'.. . that industry should be protected in one country and not in another he believes in reciprocal relations between all the coun tries of the world edgar guilty fined 25 judjac olson in contempt cases threatens lawyer m ith jail j attorney maxwell edgar was found guilty of contempt of court by chief justice : olson of the municipal court and was lined 23 and cost mr edgar filed a , conditional apology with the court 1 lave given you every chance you have had several days in which to explain that the court was wrong in his under standing of your words y'ou have done , nothing said the court ruling against ! him edgar demanded a jury trial xo the case is ended answered thc | judge and you can pay or let the bailiff take charge of you the find was paid schlippenbach in scare anto tire bursts knssian consul thinks it's n bouil and leaps xew york aug 26 baron schlippen bach the russian consul general who comes from a lend where bombs are native to the soil so to speak was at least startled this afternoon in front of the waldorf when a heavy explosion under his automobile followed by a crash threw him forward in his sea the baron sprang from ihe machine and gripped the arm of policeman knittell what is it he demanded his face pale an auto ran into your car and busted a back tire said knittell the baron looked relieved but left hls chauffeur to complain against the careless driver 4 men held up in saloon well dressed young man kires pis tol ami carries off cash a well-dressed young man entered the saloon of albert florus l!).*il west harri son street at midnight last night and or dered floras and three customers to hold up their hands at the same time present ing a revolver florus though he was joking and laughed whereupon the man tired a shot into the ceiling then ho com pelled the four to stand in a row against the bar while he took jt from the cash register ..."> from robert salter 1204 south millard avenue 7 from timothy smith and 10 from frank wilson the robber wore a neat blue serge suit tan shoes and a black stiff hat auto hurts w h singer man avho gave millions to children in precarious condition pittsburg pa aug 36 william h singer one of pittsburg's best known re tired manufacturers and financiers was badly injured last evening iu an automobile accident nt matinuck near xarragausett pier it 1 and is reported to-night as ly ing in a precarious condition mr singer u a director in the carnegie steel company and of the crucible steel company some time ago he gave 16,000,000 away to his children diss de bar flees will st men hide don't talk prominent new yorkers beg mrs french spook priestess poem from one admirer optimist club's head wrote â€¢ lines to fugitive seeress an ex-convict njsw york aup 28.v-the sudden fame of that blonde spook priestess mrs lillian hobart french stirred wall street today even more than mulberry street at the same time that central office de tectives were started on a hunt for the notorious mme un odella diss de bar the psychic swindler of old luther k marsh and of others upon hearing that mrs french had driven the de bar woman from the mahatma institue not n few prominent financiers were excitedly ring ing up the blue-eyed mrs french with such expressions as stop talking don't drag me in ! say you never knew me indeed to an uninitiated visitor who for a time heard the jangling of the mahatma institute's telephone it seemed that the golden-haired priestess of service love and sacrifice had almost as potent vibra tory contact with the financial district as she claims to have with the unknown heinze's artistic picture in the next room on a grand piano there reposed a picture of f augustus heinze which mrs french says she keeps there because of the artistic beauty of the features but when mj-si french was asked concerning the report that mr heinze had once become especially interested iu her but had quarreled with her and now even avoided speaking to her she retorted : there has beeu a lot of talk about me and mr heinze they even said that i was the mysterious blonde woman who gave away the secret of a pool in united copper and led to a panic in that stock two years ago it was a lie but people persist in bandying it about has it ever been said that mr heinze once gave you a large amount of copper stock with thc understanding that you simply hold it and you quarreled with him through putting some of it ou the market yes but that story also is not true exclaimed the seeress raising her slender white fingers with a warning gesture ic - ', ih repot t rrat tinned that i met mr heinze in butte mont nnd came to xew york some time after he did it has been stated that the management of one k>tel on the complaint of mr heinze requested you uot to call ou him remarked one visitor is that so retorted mrs french an grily i would just like them to try to put me out of any hotel so there at this juncture the telephoue rang lus tily to some inquiry she made this answer now see here you said yon knew me why shouldn't i say that i know you if i started iu to tell one lie i should have to keep telling them till i got all mixed up that's william robinson a rasping voice began to click out ot the receiver and after the interruption she replied laughingly all right i'll stop talking come and see me and we'll talk lt over as she rang off she said wearlly yes that was william robinson presi dent of the optimist club i don't see why he is so worked up such a jolly fel low too ml to emphasize what a genius robin son ls robinson the original billlken who is always willing to sell you mining stocks which he promises will make yon smile from the first dividend mrs french exhibited a poem which she said was writ ten by robiuson it was dedicated to a diva veedya the name the ex-eonviet diss de bar had assumed while a fellow priestess iu mahatma institute some of the lines ran like this mother of mysteries enthroned she sits ten thousand days and nights and moons and suns have waxed wane some power yet all unknown to human sense but simple as the daisy in the dell doth keep her young in heart and sweet of tongue ' then came another interruption a workman who had been painting some where in the temple stuck his head in a side door with the greeting say the gas company wants their money or they'll turn it off it's for 81 west thirty-third street mahatma institute is at 32 east thirty third street evelyn thaw lived there xo 31 west was where mrs french used to live and where also at one time evelyn thaw had her home oh mercy i paid that bill remon strated the prophetess tell the gas man to go away a large department store wagon rolled ui and a servant brought the message that the driver wanted i'j or be would not deliver a rug the idea exclaimed the xew thought leader so he wants money does he well then he can take the rug back with a sigli she pouted i don't think i can stand much more nf this the discovery that i had brought into my institute a woman like madame diss de bar nn impostor and a swindler and along with her that young rascal wlu called himself david a reincarnation of the writer of the psalms has fairly pros trated mo the police were here to-day but i could give inem no help mother ns we usually called a diva veedya never told nil where she lived once she said the xew york hotels e 1 up her money so fast that she and david had a farm somewhere out paper shows czar orders massacres private journal published only for him bares approval of police crimes a exposed by photograph political writer declares amaz ing facsimilie will be followed by others berlin ng 26 1n the columns of the socialist vorwaerts bourtzeff the famous russian revolutionist publishes a photographic fac simile of the first page of what he declares to be a special issue of a handwritten newspaper issued only for the czars information and containing month by month the exact unvarnished details of all the atrocities perpetrated by the russian police in the czar's name further this document bears the blue chitlkmarks said to be made by the czar to show that he had read it the marks are varnished over to preserve them from decay and will be used to prove when necessary that the czar knew and ap provd the most atrocious measures taken by the police vorwaerts will publish the successive installments of kourtzeff's rev elations ns based on photographic repro ductions of passages in this handwritten monthly record which is officially known as tue journal of the czar tells how he found it in the'first installment to-day bourtzeff relates bow he came to hear of the exist ence of the onrnal f 5olll a political spy uamed krivotch in london and how he finally obtained a copy of it bourtzeff says strikes deportations arrests pursuits spying â€” all that concerns the contest against the revolutionaries and against the people â€” is related with cynicism the journal gives an exact description of the system of spying of police methods of provoking disorders and of all the bloody acts of violence which occur in russia the czar knows of the existence of agents provocateurs reads the letters stolen by the police and knows how they are stolen etc czar approves all bourtzeff concludes to tin ns*riti!i lioaÂ»&!is_awt lu 0 of combating revolution are good however ghtistly they may be and the czar knows and approves all it ls needless to say that this amazing statement accompanied by what are of fered as photographic reproductions of the original document showing what are the ghastly methods kuown to and approved by the czar has created the greatest sat isfaction here where the theory of the czar's noucomplicity in the bestialities of the russian police has always been held by the bourgeois as a sacred article of their political creed . mystery in heinze probe [ ; la_r who i ox job quizzed two hours about deal new yoke aus 26 for more thau two hours today the special inquisitors ap pointed bj the windsor trust company to jet at the bottom of that institution's con nection with the notorious 110,000 heinze stock scandal met behind closed doors at the office of theodore p shonts they called but one witness sterling birming ham the loan clerk of the windsor trust company who handled the loan deal neither mr shouts nor his associate mr , hecksher would say a word about what had transpired birmingham has lost his job and is mad clear through if the directors do not make public his statement ' there is but little question that he will do so on his own account there are still rumors that two men never before directly i implicated will be brought before the grand jury before the case is closed < seccombe and quads go conjirrcpati lon t'liys pasior 2 onll-<v avafies and tiiÂ»lm him depart goshex mass aug 20 a1l the en thusiasm over the quadruplets described by the wife of bo hev s 11 secconibe pastor of the goshen congregational church as being bom to her has departed from residents hereabouts and to-day the pastor bis wife and the babies left in obedience to the urgent request of the church trustees two months salary was advanced to seccombe to spend on his way goshen dismisses the incident with the opinion that the quadruplets are tho most incongruous assortment that house wives hereabouts ever saw governor death prophet as foils ltodieled indicted million g aire jjerp hies alirond gog pittsbcbg aug 26 dallas c hyers the mlilionaire fugitive from justice died at d:l this morning at dinard france according to a cable received here to-day mr hyers as head of a big iron firm was indicated recently for bribing ipttsbnrg council ten to vote for the vacation of a street hyers fled to europe just before he was indicted governor joseph folk of missouri who was here when byers flight was discovered predicted that he would die abroad de sagans deny robbery paws aug ht the reports that the prince and princess de sagan and lire george gould were robbed of valuables at hkeims are denied by both the de sagans and mrs gould aged banker beats thug midday attack on cash foiled edward h ericson 71 years old rememfcers*prowes's as wrestler and saves money c-lthough it is half a century since he gained fame as an amateur wrestler and weight-lifter edward h ericson seven ty-one years old engaged in a hand-to hand encounter with an unknown man yes : terday in ericson's private bank at 61.5 wentworth avenue and beat his assailant off whether the motive for the attack was robbery or whether it was the result of a real or fancied personal grievance the police have been unable to learn four years ago last february ericson reported to the police that he had been hound and gagged iu the bank by a robber who tied with 100 it is believed possi ble by the detectives that the same rob ber may have attacked him yesterday another theory advanced was that the assailant was the bandit who last tuesday uight robbed five men and put them iu au ice box iu the saloon of liobert kjcldsen !_â€¢_: south kedzie avenue the battle in the bauk occurred at the ioon hour ericson was alone lu the place he was standing ln front of the teller's cage when a well dressed man of ibout thirty years entered the banker talked across the room to greet him anl listed what can 1 do for yon stranger hits aged banker witliout a word the man struck him ou the head it was a vicious blow and erie son does not know whether it was deliv ered with the fist or with a weapon he staggered but the tricks of his youth when he was renowned us an athlete returned to him in a hash and when the man ad vanced he closed with him ericson is a giaut in stature and he was holding his own iu the tight when his as sailant drew a revolver and began beating him over the head with the butt back ind form across the narrow room the two men struggled the robber said no word hut whenever he could free his arm he brought the pistol down with crushing force on his opponent's bead finally ericson succumbed to the blows and sauk to the floor the intruder was upon him in an instant striving to choke him ericsou was almost unconscious when the other pushed hls lagers into his mouth this was a fatal tversight with an old-school fighter eric sou sank his teeth into the lingers of the man with such force that he groaned in tgony and ceased fighting he arose stag rered to the door by which he had eu cred and disappeared several hundred dollars were in n boxron t counter in the cage and thousands were n the vault but the man made no effort lo get the money ricson unable to rise the struggle was too much for ericson he was unable to rise his head face and neck had been cut and bruised by the blows ctom the revolver and he lay on tho floor mailing in pain his moaus were heard y george 11 cline who conducts a furni ture store next door and he telephoned to the englewood police station lieutenant walsh responded with a wagon load of patrolmen and detectives thev suggested that ericson go to n hospital or physician's office but he declined i am able to take care of myself and my bank too he said he rode to the station ln the patrol wagon and there recited the story of the battle i believe i injured the man severely he said and i do not think he ran far i have not the slightest idea who he could have been unless he was a robber l am only thankful that he did not shoot a revolver believed to have been the one used br the assailant was found in a nearby alley but no other clew to the identity of the man was found the police say the man was about thirty ye.irs old 5 feet 10 inches tall and stylishly attired ' englewood financier who tackled thief many years his junior and routed him after desperate struggle gov lee chased in streets by deputy : sprints through downtown ; stores up and down ele vators and escapes with a deputy sheriff armed with sum monses in hot pursuit andrew e lee for two terms governor of south dakota and defeated last year for re-election threaded his way through the crowds on thc downtown streets iu and out of de partment stores up and down elevators and at length left the perspiring deputy hopelessly iu the rea the chase took place yesterday after noon after deputy sheriff thomas wal dron had once served the former governor with the summonses in damage suits filed by william b niles a broker lee tore the papers up without deiguiug to glance at their title waldron supplied himself with duplicates and again took up the trail he finally caught sight of him en tering a state street store then the pur suit began in earnest several times the deputy sheriff grabbed the ex-governor by the coat-tails but on each occasion the south dakotan slipped iuto an elevator just ahead of him or the detective temporarily lost sight of him in the crowd late in the afternoon waldron returned to the sheriffs ollice limp und weary with the papers still in his ificket a man who can run like that ought to win i governorship anywhere said the deputy as he mopped his brow l.ut i'm ! going to keeup up this chase just as long as lee is in town and we'll sec who is going to win after the run he gave me i'm determined to catch him niles who has an office lu tht hector building was acquitted earlier in the day by municipal judge aoimnlll of charges brought b.v lee that niles had obtained s?it",_0o from him by means of a confidence game ir connection with investments in au electric line project in michigan and ohio when lee caused his arrest niles retal iated by filing in the superior court two suits against the former governor oue for 100,000 for libel and another to compel an accounting later he filed a third suit asking 100,000 for malicious persecution and alleging that he bad spent oue night n jail as a result of false arrest it was summons in this suit in addition to dupli cates of the other two that waldron was trying to serve when he took up the pur suit big niagara hotel burns gaesta flee ror iitc as the strath cona is destroyed niagara falls n v aug l.i.-the hotel strathcona one of the oldest and most fashionable hostelries at niagara was entirely destroyed by tire this after noon many of the guests lisul to flee for their lives the are started in the cellar and swept rapidly through the building within an hour it was in ashes a num ber of fifty or more guests who had .-,, commodations at the hoiel tried to secure some of their possession but were beaten back by the flames harriman foes pay dearly in stock market after cure prices drop as alleged friends rush to sell at any figure after exposure of plot to cut 25,000,000 melon pool dares not unload shares . for which as high as 119 was paid at 95 which is best offer made to ksiders rail magnate planning punish ment at next meeting of the road is reported as im proving at arden home xew york aug 26 the startling charge that e h harriman had returned from europe to fight a clique of his own directors who were about to cur a 23,000 000 melon on their own account by way ot union pacific preferred was coa finned te hay in more ways than one the stock market and its trend during the day told the wise men of the financial district that the story of the union pacific plot was as true a report as though it had beeu inspired the members of the pool who hfid made excessive purchases banking on harr man's death abroad or his early tl.emen did not dare unload the union pacific pr ferred which they had bought even u high as 110 for the few shar s over by outsiders a price of vt2 was paid the pool members some of whom mr harriman thought were real friends of fered a great block of the stock to bi r.l of the biggest houses the best pr the could get was 03 which meant an insuf ferable loss harriman's discovery of the pb t inst him his realization that men who should have been his pallbearers were willing to take advantage of his possible death abroad was the one real club on the market plotters dare not sell to cne untrained in the wa of the land of bulls and bears the natural cone of such an exposure would be that union pacific preferred would be dumped on the market and sold at any price that a 4-per cent-ilinit stock might bring . a of fact the pool holders in th.s â€¢â– (; p pre ferred deal could not afford to market they held quantities nf stock that were not directly affected by the exposure of the plot against harriman those they sold union pacific common st i'aul steel com mon and ncw york central there lies the real explanation of the weak market and the alleged raid on harriman stocks the gigantic loans taken within the past three weeks by two of the bouses favored with the big business of the l'nion pacific directors who counted harriman out before his time if known would cause no little embarrassment the heavy selling â€¢â– relieved this situation and enal ed thi spirators to hold the union pacific i.re ferred which they had pur he seeming certainty of that bi n cut ting they realize that tlie a bc ble chance of unloading this preferred ut anything like cost prices harriman knows foes one great big serious question gr wing out of the expose of the ant barrimail plot was the probability of its effi t â– further suited action of the i nion paci fic board that mr harrimau knows not only hie names of the men who tried to knife him while he was sick is cer tain he knows more than that in hav ing a schedule of their purchases of l'nion pacific pcrferred will the next meeting of the union pacific board be harmoni ous was a question wail street asked the examiner ls nnthprized to answer that it will if mr harrimau is present and further that there will be no real board meeting until lie is there in the event of his health prohibiting his per sonal participation ex-judge robert s i.ovett his big texan attorney will take up tlie cudgel and administer the chastise ment that mr harrimau has in mind there was not a line of denial of the story that a conspiracy against the rail road czar had been nipped iu tiie bloom by bis return so far as the harriman offices in the equitable i.lfe assurance society building were concerned mr lluitiiuan is belter to-day stronger than yesterday was the report he is up and arou .! ou !. at tower ' hill arden and in ful touch with the local situation the stock market to-day would seem to show his activity ventured a reporter never believe that the stock mark "*â– how harriman stocks fluctuated yesterday net high.low.change un pac pfd 104 102y a 4 un pac com 203 198 7y z southern pac 131 125 5*7 s n y central 139 136j4 3 st paul 156i>i 1541/4 2 u s steel com 76j4 74 2 continued on 4th page 2d column { t^juwrjm tbbm-gmmma l_i__i_i_irjg_p ju weather forecast m wm Chicago and vicinity un gmt c fe 5s settled partly cloudy weather fri g Â« â€¢ Â» ' y day and saturday probably local %> jjj a showers continued warm friday t-'f v cooler saturday and sunday mod flfcj ]$$? erate southerly winds m real estate bargains r \% are offered dailyi if a % examiner want paqes flf

Chicago examiner vol vii no 214 a m friday august 27 1909 14 pages price one cent delivered dy carrier **. 30 cents per montli mitten in promise to reconsider pay with maximum at end of five years mahon declares new offer of city railway president will not satisfy men both sides talk peace walter fisher again submits idea for working proposi tion in car dispute another proposition presented by presi dent thomas e mitten of the Chicago city railway to the union carmen was rejected yesterday it was a graded scale which provided that the maximum of 30 cents an hour be reached in seven years instead of nine as had been previously offered the objection f the union officials was agaiust the length f the term after the rejection president mitten said that he would make a further investigation to see if the time of service could be still further redueed i will sc whether we can make it five years said mr mitten but i cannot see how we can pay any of the employes 3ii cents uu hour from the beginning only four union officials were present as the committee of thc day before had been found too cumbersome those present were presidenl w i mahon m c itn.-k ley william quintan and 11 a carter representing rin virions union involved in thc wage controversy president john i couch acted for the Chicago railways company president thomas e mitten for the Chicago city railway and walter l fisher for the city mahon asks answer well said president mahon when the conference opened i think it is about time for the traction presidents to give us au answer to our proposition why not take up some of the propo sition presented by the companies said president mitten vou have made only one offer for a contract and still iusist that we shall keep coming across to you why no consider the plan presented b.v mr said attorney fi her yuia question was discussed for awhile without any one being willing to make a suggestion for changing it finally president mitten said that he had been trying to see if he could reduce his sine year graded scale proposition su that the maximum wa^ea would be readied in seven years 1 cannot sec how it can be done said president mitten in a seven-year scale ! have found il practically impossible to reach the maximum of 3d cents an hour im mediately for those who have worked that time my lirst oiler of a nine-year graded scale will give 7-'l employes out of 2 73 30 cents au hour immediately to decrease the time to seven years service would in crease the number of employes advanced to j cents to 090 seven years too long says mahon we'd we cannot accept even a seven years graded scale said president mahon the time is too long wi still maintain thai you should grant us a new wage scale thai provides that ihe maximum wage of 30 cents siiail be reached iu three years the arguments went along these lines for two hour . during that time the proposition present ed wednesday by mr fisher that a scale should be considered which had for its pur pose the making eventually of a minimum scale for new men of ".*Â» lf tits was consid ered it also pruvided hu the muximum for old men should be advanced to 30 cents 1 ihiuic if mr fisher would work i his proposition in figures so as to show what it really is that we can then con sider it said i'lcsidcut mahon mr fisher said that he had been working ali bis idle time on the scale ho proposed md would probably be able to give a satisfac tory answer to-morrow president itoach said very little in the conference but frequently presented argu ments for his original proposition for a graded scale similar to the nine-year scale of president mitten finally the talk went back to president mitten's seven-year scale do you see any way clear to reduce the term of service still further asked mr fisher could you make it five years to reach tlie maximum of 30 cents 1 think not replied president mitten but 1 will look up the matter to-night and give you an answer to-morrow i am sure iiowever that to do that would make it impossible to advance any one immediately to 30 cents an hour fisher sure of peace after the conference adjourned mr fisher sai he was confident that some thing would develop from to-day's confer ence it takes time to wor out the problems presented said he * the rank and file of the carmen bow ever are anxious for something definite to be accompli h.-d this feeling became so pronounced yesterday that president w d mahou issued a statement in which he sa id : i know what it is to wait for results but we must not forget that the men with whom we an dealing have great properties to look after they have given us four hours of their time daily and i ain satisfied with that 1 would advise all the carmen to keep cool and perform their dates as usual it is not like triyng to settle a strike the hum are all at work and should be patient president matthew slush of the Chicago & southern traction company whose em ployes threaten to strike telegraphed resident mahon last night that he would be in Chicago to-day to take up the griev hnces the employes object to an offer made b.v presidenl slush to pay 3 cent an hour increase with the understanding that the sub-station men should not be consid ered tills was rejected and a telegram was sent wednesday to president slush who is in detroit asking him to come to Chicago yesterday the appointment for to-day was the result in the meantime t__t cuidloyes will lake no action lynch general threat in the panama tragedy romance in hospital involving well known woman and doctor given as cause of killing editor panama aug 26 many americans in the canal zone threatened to-day to lynch genera herbert 0 jeffries if he is not adequately punished for killing william nichols chandler editor of thc panama press yesterday general jeffries is a prisoner not in a cell but in a comfortable room on the first floor of the police station while repeat ing tbat he ls sorry for chandler's death be ays he has enough powerful backing in the i'nlted state's to get him out of the scrape as h calls it jeffrlts insists that the tory at which chandler hinted in the newspaper has been common property for some time and that everybody knows lt deputy consul gen eral guyant's explanation is that his wife went to the tnbogu sanitarium to recuper ate from ninrtarla dr reeves a former suitor of mrs guynnt und a friend of her husband paid mrs guyant polite attention and was assiduous in medical attention on her one day irs guyant and dr reeves dined together the doctor gave her two cocktails to which she was entirely ac customed she became ill some time aft.r she sought her room dr reeves hap pening to pass it heard mrs guyant moan ing he knocked on the door entered the room iu response to mrs guyant's faint come in and turned ou the light dr reeves was in the room discussing mrs guyant's illness with her when dr mc pherson bearing a man's voice in a room he knew was occupied by a woman patient opened the door dr mcpherson's charges against dr i eves followed the sanitarium authori ties refuse to disclose tliese accusations but judging from dr beeves promptness in availing himself of permissoin to resign as resident physician in the sanitarium mr chandler's friends think the charges were vary strong gary dined at sheffield i s steel chief believes in reci procity between nations sheffield england aug fi the chamber of commerce gave a dinner in honor of judge elbert h iary chairman of the board of directors of the united states steel corporation replying to a toast to his health judge gary spoke on the interdependence of trade conditions iu england and the united states he said that recent months had shown a decided advance in trade iu the i'uited states espe cially in iron and steel and so he thinks england has gocd reason to be hopeful he has uo objection to free trade he declared if all ooumrles adopr it but it > tv â€¢'.. . that industry should be protected in one country and not in another he believes in reciprocal relations between all the coun tries of the world edgar guilty fined 25 judjac olson in contempt cases threatens lawyer m ith jail j attorney maxwell edgar was found guilty of contempt of court by chief justice : olson of the municipal court and was lined 23 and cost mr edgar filed a , conditional apology with the court 1 lave given you every chance you have had several days in which to explain that the court was wrong in his under standing of your words y'ou have done , nothing said the court ruling against ! him edgar demanded a jury trial xo the case is ended answered thc | judge and you can pay or let the bailiff take charge of you the find was paid schlippenbach in scare anto tire bursts knssian consul thinks it's n bouil and leaps xew york aug 26 baron schlippen bach the russian consul general who comes from a lend where bombs are native to the soil so to speak was at least startled this afternoon in front of the waldorf when a heavy explosion under his automobile followed by a crash threw him forward in his sea the baron sprang from ihe machine and gripped the arm of policeman knittell what is it he demanded his face pale an auto ran into your car and busted a back tire said knittell the baron looked relieved but left hls chauffeur to complain against the careless driver 4 men held up in saloon well dressed young man kires pis tol ami carries off cash a well-dressed young man entered the saloon of albert florus l!).*il west harri son street at midnight last night and or dered floras and three customers to hold up their hands at the same time present ing a revolver florus though he was joking and laughed whereupon the man tired a shot into the ceiling then ho com pelled the four to stand in a row against the bar while he took jt from the cash register ..."> from robert salter 1204 south millard avenue 7 from timothy smith and 10 from frank wilson the robber wore a neat blue serge suit tan shoes and a black stiff hat auto hurts w h singer man avho gave millions to children in precarious condition pittsburg pa aug 36 william h singer one of pittsburg's best known re tired manufacturers and financiers was badly injured last evening iu an automobile accident nt matinuck near xarragausett pier it 1 and is reported to-night as ly ing in a precarious condition mr singer u a director in the carnegie steel company and of the crucible steel company some time ago he gave 16,000,000 away to his children diss de bar flees will st men hide don't talk prominent new yorkers beg mrs french spook priestess poem from one admirer optimist club's head wrote â€¢ lines to fugitive seeress an ex-convict njsw york aup 28.v-the sudden fame of that blonde spook priestess mrs lillian hobart french stirred wall street today even more than mulberry street at the same time that central office de tectives were started on a hunt for the notorious mme un odella diss de bar the psychic swindler of old luther k marsh and of others upon hearing that mrs french had driven the de bar woman from the mahatma institue not n few prominent financiers were excitedly ring ing up the blue-eyed mrs french with such expressions as stop talking don't drag me in ! say you never knew me indeed to an uninitiated visitor who for a time heard the jangling of the mahatma institute's telephone it seemed that the golden-haired priestess of service love and sacrifice had almost as potent vibra tory contact with the financial district as she claims to have with the unknown heinze's artistic picture in the next room on a grand piano there reposed a picture of f augustus heinze which mrs french says she keeps there because of the artistic beauty of the features but when mj-si french was asked concerning the report that mr heinze had once become especially interested iu her but had quarreled with her and now even avoided speaking to her she retorted : there has beeu a lot of talk about me and mr heinze they even said that i was the mysterious blonde woman who gave away the secret of a pool in united copper and led to a panic in that stock two years ago it was a lie but people persist in bandying it about has it ever been said that mr heinze once gave you a large amount of copper stock with thc understanding that you simply hold it and you quarreled with him through putting some of it ou the market yes but that story also is not true exclaimed the seeress raising her slender white fingers with a warning gesture ic - ', ih repot t rrat tinned that i met mr heinze in butte mont nnd came to xew york some time after he did it has been stated that the management of one k>tel on the complaint of mr heinze requested you uot to call ou him remarked one visitor is that so retorted mrs french an grily i would just like them to try to put me out of any hotel so there at this juncture the telephoue rang lus tily to some inquiry she made this answer now see here you said yon knew me why shouldn't i say that i know you if i started iu to tell one lie i should have to keep telling them till i got all mixed up that's william robinson a rasping voice began to click out ot the receiver and after the interruption she replied laughingly all right i'll stop talking come and see me and we'll talk lt over as she rang off she said wearlly yes that was william robinson presi dent of the optimist club i don't see why he is so worked up such a jolly fel low too ml to emphasize what a genius robin son ls robinson the original billlken who is always willing to sell you mining stocks which he promises will make yon smile from the first dividend mrs french exhibited a poem which she said was writ ten by robiuson it was dedicated to a diva veedya the name the ex-eonviet diss de bar had assumed while a fellow priestess iu mahatma institute some of the lines ran like this mother of mysteries enthroned she sits ten thousand days and nights and moons and suns have waxed wane some power yet all unknown to human sense but simple as the daisy in the dell doth keep her young in heart and sweet of tongue ' then came another interruption a workman who had been painting some where in the temple stuck his head in a side door with the greeting say the gas company wants their money or they'll turn it off it's for 81 west thirty-third street mahatma institute is at 32 east thirty third street evelyn thaw lived there xo 31 west was where mrs french used to live and where also at one time evelyn thaw had her home oh mercy i paid that bill remon strated the prophetess tell the gas man to go away a large department store wagon rolled ui and a servant brought the message that the driver wanted i'j or be would not deliver a rug the idea exclaimed the xew thought leader so he wants money does he well then he can take the rug back with a sigli she pouted i don't think i can stand much more nf this the discovery that i had brought into my institute a woman like madame diss de bar nn impostor and a swindler and along with her that young rascal wlu called himself david a reincarnation of the writer of the psalms has fairly pros trated mo the police were here to-day but i could give inem no help mother ns we usually called a diva veedya never told nil where she lived once she said the xew york hotels e 1 up her money so fast that she and david had a farm somewhere out paper shows czar orders massacres private journal published only for him bares approval of police crimes a exposed by photograph political writer declares amaz ing facsimilie will be followed by others berlin ng 26 1n the columns of the socialist vorwaerts bourtzeff the famous russian revolutionist publishes a photographic fac simile of the first page of what he declares to be a special issue of a handwritten newspaper issued only for the czars information and containing month by month the exact unvarnished details of all the atrocities perpetrated by the russian police in the czar's name further this document bears the blue chitlkmarks said to be made by the czar to show that he had read it the marks are varnished over to preserve them from decay and will be used to prove when necessary that the czar knew and ap provd the most atrocious measures taken by the police vorwaerts will publish the successive installments of kourtzeff's rev elations ns based on photographic repro ductions of passages in this handwritten monthly record which is officially known as tue journal of the czar tells how he found it in the'first installment to-day bourtzeff relates bow he came to hear of the exist ence of the onrnal f 5olll a political spy uamed krivotch in london and how he finally obtained a copy of it bourtzeff says strikes deportations arrests pursuits spying â€” all that concerns the contest against the revolutionaries and against the people â€” is related with cynicism the journal gives an exact description of the system of spying of police methods of provoking disorders and of all the bloody acts of violence which occur in russia the czar knows of the existence of agents provocateurs reads the letters stolen by the police and knows how they are stolen etc czar approves all bourtzeff concludes to tin ns*riti!i lioaÂ»&!is_awt lu 0 of combating revolution are good however ghtistly they may be and the czar knows and approves all it ls needless to say that this amazing statement accompanied by what are of fered as photographic reproductions of the original document showing what are the ghastly methods kuown to and approved by the czar has created the greatest sat isfaction here where the theory of the czar's noucomplicity in the bestialities of the russian police has always been held by the bourgeois as a sacred article of their political creed . mystery in heinze probe [ ; la_r who i ox job quizzed two hours about deal new yoke aus 26 for more thau two hours today the special inquisitors ap pointed bj the windsor trust company to jet at the bottom of that institution's con nection with the notorious 110,000 heinze stock scandal met behind closed doors at the office of theodore p shonts they called but one witness sterling birming ham the loan clerk of the windsor trust company who handled the loan deal neither mr shouts nor his associate mr , hecksher would say a word about what had transpired birmingham has lost his job and is mad clear through if the directors do not make public his statement ' there is but little question that he will do so on his own account there are still rumors that two men never before directly i implicated will be brought before the grand jury before the case is closed < seccombe and quads go conjirrcpati lon t'liys pasior 2 onll-i 1541/4 2 u s steel com 76j4 74 2 continued on 4th page 2d column { t^juwrjm tbbm-gmmma l_i__i_i_irjg_p ju weather forecast m wm Chicago and vicinity un gmt c fe 5s settled partly cloudy weather fri g Â« â€¢ Â» ' y day and saturday probably local %> jjj a showers continued warm friday t-'f v cooler saturday and sunday mod flfcj ]$$? erate southerly winds m real estate 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